The excuse for Spectra’s Sabal Trail pipeline is new natural gas
electric generating units in Florida. FPL calls this “modernizing“, which is an odd word for using 20th century fossil fuels when 21st century solar power, conservation, and efficiency is ready right now for the Sunshine State.
Adding to their opposition to LNG export, the Sierra Club Board of Directors has adopted this new policy:

“Natural Gas: The Sierra Club opposes new electric generating
units powered by natural gas, including peaking and combined cycle
units. Consistent with the Board’s goal of eliminating all fossil
fuels from the electric sector no later than 2030, it is critical
that the US avoid further high-capital investments in new natural
gas plants and related infrastructure.”

Washington, DC — In an open letter to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC), more than eighty health professionals
urge the FERC to stop permitting oil and gas infrastructure and to
move to clean sustainable sources of energy to protect the health of
people and the planet. The construction of oil and gas projects such
as unconventional fracking, pipelines, compressor stations and
export terminals which pollute with cancer and disease-causing
chemicals is akin to an uncontrolled health experiment that is
destroying communities and risking lives of residents. These
projects also harm the workers who build and maintain them. For the
health of all who are involved, health professionals demand that
this unethical ‘experiment’ stop.

All that and pipelines risk the Floridan Aquifer which is the
source of our drinking water in Florida and south Georgia.